North Yorkshire SQL Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the North Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Structured Query Language (SQL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Ascot Avon Aylesbury Banbury Banstead Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Clevedon Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Isleworth Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Lyndhurst M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Queensferry Reading Redditch Redhill Rickmansworth Romford Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Royston Rugby Ryde Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southwark St Asaph St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tiverton Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	16
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	22	37
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.031 %	0.037 %
As % of the category below	23.91 %	27.41 %
Daily rates quoted	3	8
Average minimum daily rate	£283	£279
Average daily rate	£295	£297
% change on same period last year	-0.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£307	£315
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£21.00	£29.17
% change on same period last year	-27.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.00	£33.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.05	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-3.18 %
Programming Languages North Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	92	135
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.130 %	0.137 %
Daily rates quoted	11	46
Average minimum daily rate	£276	£284
Average daily rate	£292	£294
% change on same period last year	-0.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£308	£303
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.99 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.89	£25.93
Average hourly rate	£25.51	£32.89
% change on same period last year	-22.44 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.14	£39.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.17	£32.72
% change on same period last year	-1.67 %
SQL Yorkshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SQL
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL across the North Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

SQL
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL across the North Yorkshire region.

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the North Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL across the North Yorkshire region.

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL across the North Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

SQL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the North Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
York	+11	7	£350	+16.94 %
Middlesbrough	+2	2	-	-
Harrogate	-	2	-	-

SQL Yorkshire

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire region citing SQL also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SQL.

1 29 (61.70 %) .NET 2 25 (53.19 %) C# 3 23 (48.94 %) ASP.NET 4 15 (31.91 %) SQL Server 5 12 (25.53 %) XML 6 11 (23.40 %) SQL Server 2000 7 9 (19.15 %) OO 7 9 (19.15 %) CSS 7 9 (19.15 %) SQL Server 2005 8 8 (17.02 %) AJAX 9 7 (14.89 %) Finance 9 7 (14.89 %) Visual Studio 9 7 (14.89 %) JavaScript 9 7 (14.89 %) PHP 9 7 (14.89 %) Oracle

10 6 (12.77 %) C++ 10 6 (12.77 %) HTML 10 6 (12.77 %) WebServices 10 6 (12.77 %) Microsoft 11 5 (10.64 %) SNMP 11 5 (10.64 %) Management Information System 11 5 (10.64 %) Statistics 12 4 (8.511 %) XHTML 12 4 (8.511 %) Perl 12 4 (8.511 %) Transact-SQL 13 3 (6.383 %) VB 13 3 (6.383 %) VB.NET 13 3 (6.383 %) Windows 13 3 (6.383 %) Software Engineering 13 3 (6.383 %) Pensions

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire region citing SQL also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SQL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 29 (61.70 %) .NET 2 23 (48.94 %) ASP.NET 3 12 (25.53 %) XML 4 9 (19.15 %) CSS 5 8 (17.02 %) AJAX 6 6 (12.77 %) HTML 6 6 (12.77 %) WebServices 7 4 (8.511 %) XHTML 8 2 (4.255 %) .NET Framework 8 2 (4.255 %) Adobe Flex 8 2 (4.255 %) WinForms 8 2 (4.255 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 1 (2.128 %) WCF 9 1 (2.128 %) LINQ 9 1 (2.128 %) WSDL 9 1 (2.128 %) LAMP 9 1 (2.128 %) XSLT 9 1 (2.128 %) ASP 9 1 (2.128 %) JSP 9 1 (2.128 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 2 (4.255 %) ColdFusion MX 1 2 (4.255 %) Apache 1 2 (4.255 %) ColdFusion 1 2 (4.255 %) BizTalk Server 1 2 (4.255 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 1 (2.128 %) Tomcat 2 1 (2.128 %) SharePoint 2 1 (2.128 %) SAS
Applications 1 1 (2.128 %) MS Office 1 1 (2.128 %) MS Excel 1 1 (2.128 %) SPSS 1 1 (2.128 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 1 (2.128 %) Oracle Applications 1 1 (2.128 %) Sophis RISQUE
Communications & Networking 1 5 (10.64 %) SNMP 2 1 (2.128 %) HTTPS 2 1 (2.128 %) Internet 2 1 (2.128 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 15 (31.91 %) SQL Server 2 11 (23.40 %) SQL Server 2000 3 9 (19.15 %) SQL Server 2005 4 2 (4.255 %) Oracle OWB 5 1 (2.128 %) PostgreSQL 5 1 (2.128 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 1 (2.128 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 1 (2.128 %) MS Access 5 1 (2.128 %) DTS 5 1 (2.128 %) RDBMS 5 1 (2.128 %) BusinessObjects 5 1 (2.128 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 7 (14.89 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (4.255 %) Flash 2 2 (4.255 %) Oracle APEX 3 1 (2.128 %) TestDirector 3 1 (2.128 %) ProC 3 1 (2.128 %) Subversion	General 1 7 (14.89 %) Finance 2 3 (6.383 %) Pensions 3 2 (4.255 %) Insurance 4 1 (2.128 %) Banking 4 1 (2.128 %) Retail 4 1 (2.128 %) Investment Banking
Job Titles 1 39 (82.98 %) Developer 2 12 (25.53 %) C# Developer 3 9 (19.15 %) .NET Developer 4 8 (17.02 %) Web Developer 5 5 (10.64 %) Senior Developer 6 4 (8.511 %) Analyst 6 4 (8.511 %) PHP Developer 7 3 (6.383 %) SQL Developer 7 3 (6.383 %) ASP.NET Developer 8 2 (4.255 %) SQL Server Developer 8 2 (4.255 %) Perl Developer 8 2 (4.255 %) Programmer 8 2 (4.255 %) WinForms Developer 8 2 (4.255 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 2 (4.255 %) Oracle Developer 8 2 (4.255 %) Senior C# Developer 9 1 (2.128 %) Developer Analyst 9 1 (2.128 %) Applications Tester 9 1 (2.128 %) Senior C++ Developer 9 1 (2.128 %) Performance Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 5 (10.64 %) Management Information System 1 5 (10.64 %) Statistics 2 3 (6.383 %) Computer Science 3 2 (4.255 %) N-Tier 3 2 (4.255 %) NHS 4 1 (2.128 %) Mainframe 4 1 (2.128 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 3 (6.383 %) Windows 2 2 (4.255 %) UNIX 2 2 (4.255 %) Linux 3 1 (2.128 %) Debian 3 1 (2.128 %) Ubuntu 3 1 (2.128 %) CentOS 3 1 (2.128 %) Red Hat Linux 3 1 (2.128 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (19.15 %) OO 2 3 (6.383 %) Software Engineering 3 2 (4.255 %) DSDM 3 2 (4.255 %) E-Commerce 3 2 (4.255 %) Web Design 3 2 (4.255 %) OOP 4 1 (2.128 %) Content Management 4 1 (2.128 %) Document Management 4 1 (2.128 %) SOA 4 1 (2.128 %) Business Intelligence 4 1 (2.128 %) Configuration Management 4 1 (2.128 %) Project Management 4 1 (2.128 %) Service Delivery 4 1 (2.128 %) Change Management 4 1 (2.128 %) Migration 4 1 (2.128 %) Load Balancing 4 1 (2.128 %) Release Management 4 1 (2.128 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 1 (2.128 %) Test Scripting 4 1 (2.128 %) Data Migration
Programming Languages 1 25 (53.19 %) C# 2 7 (14.89 %) JavaScript 2 7 (14.89 %) PHP 3 6 (12.77 %) C++ 4 4 (8.511 %) Perl 4 4 (8.511 %) Transact-SQL 5 3 (6.383 %) VB 5 3 (6.383 %) VB.NET 6 2 (4.255 %) PL/SQL 6 2 (4.255 %) DHTML 6 2 (4.255 %) Java 7 1 (2.128 %) ActionScript 7 1 (2.128 %) Python 7 1 (2.128 %) VB6 7 1 (2.128 %) C	Qualifications 1 3 (6.383 %) Degree 2 1 (2.128 %) ISEB
Vendors 1 7 (14.89 %) Oracle 2 6 (12.77 %) Microsoft 3 1 (2.128 %) Red Hat 3 1 (2.128 %) Teradata 3 1 (2.128 %) Sophis 3 1 (2.128 %) Business Objects